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• Foreword / Gwen M. Groff and Eleanor Epp-Stobbe
• Gender in the Old Testament / Wilma Ann Bailey
• Gender in the New Testament / Adelia Neufeld Wiens
• Gender and sex differences : real or imagined? / Ken and Irma Fast-Dueck
• Homemaking and careers : cooking the ordinary soup of our everyday lives / Eileen Klassen Hamm and Les Klassen Hamm
• Living in our created bodies / Karen Schlichting and Aiden Schlichting Enns
• Physical and sexual abuse : violence in gender relationships / Carol Penner
• A black woman's voice / Regina Shands Stoltzfus
• Gender and aging : male or female-- what difference does it make? / Kate Funk Wiebe
• The church is not Noah's ark : singleness in the church / Miles Zimmerly Wiederkehr
• Mothering and fathering : the change in us / Wes Bergen and Carol Penner
• Raising nonsexist children / Atlee Beechy
• Youth and gender relationships / Joan Yoder
• Gender in the church / Frances Hiebert.

• Gender and taxonomies
• Gender and impersonal speech
• Divine female(s)
• Human females
• Human female, biblical females
• The discourse of gender in the book of Ben Sira.

Gender in the Book of Ben Sira is a semantic analysis and, also, an investigation of hermeneutical pathways for performing such an analysis. A comparison of possible Greek and Hebrew gender taxonomies precedes the extensive delineation of the target-category, gender. The delineation includes invisible influences in the Book of Ben Sira such as the author's choices of genre and his situation as a member of a colonized group within a Hellenistic empire. When the Book of Ben Sira's genre-constrained invectives against women and male fools are excluded, the remaining expectations for women and for men are mostly equivalent, in terms of a pious life lived according to Torah. However, Ben Sira says nothing about distinctions at the level of how "living according to Torah" would differ for the two groups. His book presents an Edenic ideal of marriage through allusions to Genesis 1 to 4, and a substantial overlap of erotic discourse for the female figures of Wisdom and the "intelligent wife" creates tropes similar to those of the Song of Songs. In addition, Ben Sira's colonial status affects what he says and how he says it; by writing in Hebrew, he could craft the Greek genres of encomium and invective to carry multiple levels of meaning that subvert Hellenistic/Greek claims to cultural superiority.
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• The unnatural family / Felicity Edholm
• Is there a family? New anthropological views / Jane Collier, Michelle Z. Rosaldo, Sylvia Yanagisako
• Conceptualizing "family"
• Bonnie J. Fox, Meg Luxton
• !Kung women: contrasts in sexual egalitarianism in foraging and sedentary contexts
• Patricia Draper
• Women in an egalitarian society: the Montagnais-Naskapi of Canada / Eleanor Leacock
• The family economy in modern England and France / Louise Tilly, Joan Scott
• The fragmented family: family strategies in the face of death, illness, and poverty, Montreal, 1860-1891 / Bettina Bradbury
• Pigs, cows, and boarders: non-wage forms of survival among Montreal families, 1861-1891 / Bettoma Bradbury
• Domesticity / Nancy Cott
• Putting mothers on the pedestal / Maxine Margolis
• Bread before roses: American workingmen, labour unions, and the family wage / Martha May
• The rise and fall of the breadwinner-homemaker family / Bonnie J. Fox
• The reproduction of family life: perspectives of male and female adolescents / Jane Gaskell
• The more things change ...: an update on Gaskell's findings / Lorna Irwin, Penni Stewart --

• Commitment and the cultural mandate: woman in medicine / Patricia Bourne, Norma Wikler
• Heterosexuality: contested ground / Mariana Valverde
• Heterosexual sex: power and desire for the other / Wendy Hollway
• Gender politics: love and power in the private and public spheres / Francesca Cancian
• Desperately seeking babies: new technologies of hope and despair / Rona Achilles
• Childbirth as culture, experience and politics / Shelly Romalis
• Motherwork, stress, and depression: the costs of privatized social reporduction / Harriet Rosenberg
• The acceptance of the concept of the maternal role by behavioural scientists: its effect on women / Rochelle Paul Wortis
• The good father: reconstructing fatherhood / Lynne Segal
• The politics of family and immigration in the subordination of domestic workers in Canada / Sedef Arat-Koc
• Violence against wives / R. Emerson Dobash, Russell Dobash
• Child battery / Susan G. Cole
• In whose best interest: the politics of joint custody / Janice Drakich --

• The demise of domesticity in America / Alice Kessler-Harris, Karen Brodkin Sacks
• Pathbreakers: some unconventional families of the 90s / Bonnie J. Fox, Doreen Fumia.

This book offers a collection of articles that together develop a systematic understanding of family. Many of the other articles focus on the social relations of sexuality, intimacy, reproduction, parenting and living together. All the articles flesh out the definition of 'family' as the social relations people create to provide for the daily needs of children and adults. The articles (most previously published) were chosen for their thorough but also critical, feminist analyses and provocative arguments.
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• El movimiento de mujeres como innovación teórica y política
• Las mujeres y las fronteras del género
• Supuestos que se derrumban? : identidades de género y discursos sobre sexualidad
• Indias o ciudadanas? : género y etnicidad
• Género y globalización.

• Egalité oblige / Luc Sindjoun et Mathias Eric Owona Nguini
• Les cadres masculins de l'expérience féminine / Hélène-Laure Menthong
• L'économie domestique de la domination masculine / Lydie Chantal Ella Meye
• La dynamique des habitus sexués / Patrice Bigombe Logo
• La civilisation matérielle des relations sociales / Jean-Paul Komon
• J'entreprends donc je suis / Sariette Batibonak
• Les sexe du travail / Georges Kobou.

• I. La virilité aristrocratique ou l'héritage du désert
• II. Du masculin ou de la poursuite du centre dans la cité Islamique
• III. De la conquète au despotisme : l'exemple ottoman
• IV. De l'homme de la rue aux Islamistes du XXe siècle
• V. Le viril au fondement du fascisme
• VI. Jamais assez viril, Jamais assez pur, l'horison Islamiste

• 1. Introduction: Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe Nancy M. Wingfield and Maria BucurPart I. Challenging Gender Roles/Restoring Order2. "Female Generals" and "Siberian Angels": Aristocratic Nurses and the Austro-Hungarian POW Relief Alon Rachamimov
• 3. Civilizing the Soldier in Postwar Austria Maureen Healy
• 4. Between Red Army and White Guard: Women in Budapest, 1919 Eliza AblovatskiPart II. Gendered Collaborating and Resisting5. Dumplings and Domesticity: Women, Collaboration, and Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Melissa Feinberg
• 6. Denouncers and Fraternizers: Gender, Collaboration, and Retribution in Bohemia and Moravia during World War II and After Benjamin Frommer
• 7. Family, Gender, and Ideology in World War II Latvia Mara LazdaPart III. Remembering War: Gendered Bodies, Gendered Stories8. Kosovo Maiden(s): Serbian Women Commemorate the Wars of National Liberation, 19121918 Melissa Bokovoy
• 9. Women's Stories as Sites of Memory: Gender and Remembering Romania's World Wars Maria Bucur
• 10. The Nation's Pain and Women's Shame: Polish Women and Wartime Violence Katherine R. Jolluck
• 11. "The Alienated Body": Gender Identity and the Memory of the Siege of Leningrad Lisa A. Kirschenbaum.
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This volume explores the role of gender on both the home and fighting fronts in Eastern Europe during the First and Second World Wars. By using gender as a category of analysis, the authors seek to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the subjective nature of wartime experience and its representations. While historians have long equated the fighting front with the masculine and the home front with the feminine, the contributors challenge these dichotomies, demonstrating that they are based on culturally embedded assumptions about heroism and sacrifice. Major themes include the ways in which wartime experiences challenge traditional gender roles; post-war restoration of gender order; collaboration and resistance; the body; and memory and commemoration.
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• Author Bio; Endorsement; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction: Boom and Bust? Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture; Austere Times for Feminism? Gendering the Recession; Feminism Goes Pop: Constructing Culture, Constructing (Post)Femininities; Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture: Chapter Summaries; Notes; Bibliography; 1 A Big Neo-Victorian Society?: Gender, Austerity and Conservative Family Values in The Mill.

• Dependency, Responsibility and Gendering the Recession: David Cameron's Family ValuesPaternal Problems: Gendering the Working Body in The Mill, Series One; Austere Times for Feminism? The Mill, Series Two; Notes; Bibliography; 2 The Downturn at Downton: Money and Masculinity in Downton Abbey; The Ruin of Robert Crawley; Austerity at the Abbey; The Post-Recessional Fool; Conclusion: Lessons from the Abbey; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Wartime Housewives and Vintage Women: A.S. Byatt's Ragnarok: The End of the Gods and Reframing Popular Nostalgia; Conclusions: Feminist Mythopoeia and Horizons; Notes.

• 5 From Homebuyer Advisor to Angel of the Hearth: The Development of Kirstie Allsopp as the Female Face of Channel 4 'Squeezed Middle' Austerity ProgrammingNotes; Bibliography; 6 The Walking Dead and Gendering Zombie Austerity; Cutting Back: The Walking Dead's Industrial and Narrative Austerity; White Males Back on Top in the Zombie Apocalypse; Note; Bibliography; 7 Embodying Austerity: Food and Physicality in The Hunger Games; Austere Consumption; Spectacle and Consumption; Consumable Bodies; Bibliography; 8 'I Want What Everyone Wants': Cruel Optimism in HBO's Girls; Girls and the Millennial.

• Cruel OptimismThe Impasse of 'One Man's Trash'; 'I Want What Everyone Wants': Hannah's Confession; Conclusion: Girls' Cruel Optimism; Notes; Bibliography; 9 Baring the Recession: Sexual Sensationalism and Gender (A)politics in Contemporary Culture; Austerity Neoliberalism and Boob and Bust Politics; Gotta Fuck and Post-Sexism; Notes; Bibliography.

From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural and feminist theory, these writers explore how men and women experience austerity differently and illuminate the problematic ways in which economic policy can shape how gender is presented in popular culture. Written from the perspective that the popular is indeed political, this book considers film, literature and television's ideological attitudes towards race, sex and disability. It also takes into account how mass culture has responded to austerity in the past and the present, whilst examining the impact that feminism will have in the future.
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• Introduction
• 1. Questions, Assumptions and Viewpoints
• 2. The Garden as Tableau: Genesis 2
• 3. The Partners in Action: Genesis 3
• 4. The Partnership of Brothers: Genesis 4
• 5. Reading for Gender
• 6. Eden and Gender
• 7. The Hebrew Bible and Gender
• 8. Looking Back: Hierarchy Rules
• 9. Telling It Slant: Women and Rabbis Dissent Conclusion, Reading Forward Bibliography Index.
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What can explain the persistence of gender inequality throughout history? Do narratives such as the Eden story explain that dissymmetry or contribute to it? This book suggests that the Hebrew Bible began and has sustained a rich conversation about sex and gender throughout its life. A literary study of the Garden of Eden story reveals a focus on the human partnership as integral to the divine creation project. Texts from other Hebrew Bible genres build a picture of robust and flexible partnerships within a patriarchal framework. In popular culture, Eve still carries the stench of guilt while Adam, seemingly unscathed by Eden events, remains a positive symbol of manhood. This book helps explain why they have had such different histories. The book also charts the subversive alternate streams of interpretation of women's writings and rabbinic texts. The story of Adam and Eve demonstrates how conceptions of gender in both ancient and modern worlds reflect larger philosophical schemes. Far from existing as timeless verities, female and male relations are constructed according to cultural imperatives of the day. Understanding the different ways that Adam and Eve have been conceived gives us perspective on our own twenty-first century gender architecture.
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• Reflections on the social status of Mycenaean women / Helène Whittaker von Hofsten
• Etruscan women and power / Annette Rathje
• Women in Estruscan tomb-painting / Charlotte Scheffer
• Late Etruscan sarcophagi as expressions of status for women and men / Marjatta Nielsen
• How to be a great Roman lady : images of Cornelia in ancient literary tradition / Marja-Leena Hänninen
• Public roles and personal status : the case of Antonia Minor / Lena Larsson Lovén
• Gendered identities and the conformity of male-female vartues on Roman mythological sarcophagi / Inge Lyse Hansen
• The family in late antique art / Natalie Boymel Kampen
• Cypriote boys in the service of the great goddess / Maria Bruun-Lundgren
• The history of the Homeric priestess Theano : a view from the past / Marie-Louise B. Nosch
• The changing role of the vestal virgins / Katariian Mustakallio
• Norea as saviour in Gnosticism / Jonathan Peste
• Homosexual roles and the perceptions of male homosexuality in classical Athens / Niels Ladefoged Rasmussen
• Public, private or mythological identities? : on the identity of females sexually "harrassed" by satyrs on red-figure vases / Anna Lindblum.

• 'Starry eyed': women in science in nineteenth-century Ireland
• 'The fun of being intellectual': Helen Waddell (1889-1965) and Maude Clarke (1892-1935)
• Intellectual lives and literary perspectives: female Irish writing at home and abroad
• General practice? Victorian Irish women and United Kingdom medicine
• Intellectual women: Irish women at Cambridge, 1875-1904
• A woman's reply: women and divorce law reform in Victorian Ireland
• A terrible beauty? women, modernity and Irish nationalism before the Easter Rising
• Knowing their place? Girls' perceptions of school in nineteenth-century Ireland

Knowing their Place is a comprehensive account of the public, private and intellectual life of Irish women in the Victorian age. In particular, this book looks at the steady progress of girls and women within the education system, their gradual involvement in intellectual life through amateur societies (such as the Royal Dublin Society); their emergence of independent, highly motivated scholarly and philanthropic individuals who operated within local spheres with often very considerable degrees of success and influence.
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Rousseau's writings reflect paradoxes and apparent inconsistencies with his principled commitments to freedom and equality. In this engrossing work, Penny Weiss wrestles with issues of gender in the works of Rousseau. Weiss attempts to resolve apparent inconsistencies by placing them within the context of Rousseau's political philosophy, while avoiding the impulse to attribute his remarks on the sexes to the sexist times in which he wrote, or to his personal idiosyncracies. A significant contribution to feminist theory, this book addresses the debates concerning Rousseau's understandings of gender, justice, freedom, community, and equality. She also examines how Rousseau's political strategies give rise to a range of important contemporary questions regarding families, citizens, and communities. This new, more complete picture of Rousseau's work will challenge scholars and students of philosophy, politics, and women's studies to look at, and understand, Rousseau in a whole new way. Penny A. Weiss addresses the apparent male/female contradictions that run through the work of the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. She argues that Rousseau's defense of sexual differentiation is based on the contribution he perceives it can make to the establishment of community, not on an appeal to some version of natural sex differences. Weiss convincingly demonstrates that Rousseau's political strategy is ultimately unworkable, undermining the very community it was meant to establish.
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In early 1910s, two pioneering women entrepreneurs, Nadezhda Dobychina in St Petersburg and Klavdia Mikhailova in Moscow set up two of the first art galleries in Russia. Skilfully balancing current art market trends and daring avant-garde experimentations, Dobychina and Mikhailova soon transformed their establishments into vibrant centres of Russian artistic life. Their exhibitions of well-established national and international artists attracted enthusiastic crowds and won acclaim from leading art critics. They did not hesitate to engage in more provocative ventures, including the controversial Goncharova retrospectives in 1914, which for the first time put on view over 500 cutting-edge avant-garde works, and the famous 0.10 exhibition of 1915 at Dobychina's Art Bureau in St. Petersburg, where Malevich's famous Black Square was displayed for the very first time. Based on previously unpublished archival materials and illustrations, this book will tell the story of the lives and adventures of these two remarkable women. Operating in a predominantly man's world, they focussed on discovering and promoting those Russian artists who later went on to become major figures in the history of world modernism.
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• Preface and Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction: Gendering the Agenda, Lynn Abrams
• 2. Gender and Scottish Identity, Esther Breitenbach and Lynn Abrams
• 3. Women, Gender and Politics, Sue Innes and Jane Rendall
• 4. Religion, Callum G. Brown
• 5. Education and Learning, Lindy Moore
• 6. Science, Medicine and the Body, Eileen Janes Yeo
• 7. Gender, the Arts and Culture, Sian Reynolds
• 8. Work, Trade and Commerce, Deborah Simonton
• 9. The Family, Eleanor Gordon
• List of Contributors.
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Scottish history is undergoing a renaissance. Everyone agrees that an understanding of our nation's history is integral to our experience of its present and the shaping of the future. But the story of Scotland's past is being told with little reference to gendered identities. Not only are women largely missing from these grand narratives, but men's experience has tended to be sublimated in intellectual, political and economic agendas. Neither femininities nor masculinities have been given much of a place in Scotland's past or in the process of nation-making. Gender in Scottish History offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700, viewing some of the main themes with a gendered perspective. It starts from the assumption that gender is integral to our understanding of the ways in which societies in the past were organised and that national histories have a tendency to be gender blind. Each chapter engages with one key theme from Scottish historiography, asking what happens when women are added to the story and how the story changes when the meanings of gendered understandings and assumptions are probed. Addressing politics, culture, religion, science, education, work, the family and identity, Gender in Scottish History proposes an alternative reading of the Scottish past which is both inclusive and recognisable.
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We are swiftly becoming a people whose relational tastes are as varied as cereal brands in the grocery store. The LGBT movement lobbies for marriage equality; Fundamentalist Mormons have Polygamy; We have the "moral" majority of conservative Evangelicals promoting traditional family values; The pornography industry runs rampant; Swingers, Polyamorous relationships have been added to the mix; Friends-with-benefits, and on and on?the list is endless. What was once viewed as the norm is now simply one option among many. Sexual intimacy has been turned into recreational sex and genital entertainment. Marital commitment is entered into based on sentimental "love" at best. Gender has become an emotional preference. To make matters worse, sexual intimacy is seen as a necessary evil solely intended for procreation. Marital commitment is discardable at will, and gender inequality is more than a myth. Patriarchal/paternal dominance is so palpable globally that it goes unnoticed. Is this what God designed, intended, or wills? Or did God have something greater planned for humanity when He created us? Welcome to Sex-U-ology: an exploration and examination of the image of God

• I. Introduction
• 1. Ezekiel and Gender Reversal
• 2. Preliminary Considerations
• a) Composition and Dating
• b) Approaches to Ezekiel 16 and 23
• 1. Traditional Commentators
• 2. Feminist Readers
• 3. Covenant Theologians
• 3. Where Do We Go From Here?
• II. Metaphor
• 1. Metaphor Theories
• 2. Cognitive Metaphor Theory
• 3. Schemas and Slots
• 4. Metaphor and Contextual Knowledge
• 5. Metaphor and Persuasion
• 6. Metaphor and Biblical Studies
• 7. 'A Metaphor is Just a Metaphor'
• 8. Conclusions
• III. Gender Reversal: A weak man is a woman
• 1. Metaphor in Socio-Cultural and Historical Context
• a) Exile, Shame and Gender Crisis
• b) Ezekiel and Exile
• c) Responses to Gender Confusion: Hypervirility
• d) Responses to Gender Confusion: Emasculation
• e) Excursus: Psychologising Ezekiel
• 2. Metaphor in Literary Context
• a) The Mesopotamian Evidence
• b) The Biblical Evidence
• 3. Conclusions
• IV. Ezekiel 16 and the Emasculated Man
• 1. The Passive Girl
• a) Translation and Commentary
• b) Vulnerability ad absurdum
• c) He Gives her Life
• d) He Gives her Sexual Experience
• 2. The Assertive Woman
• a) Translation and Commentary
• b) Women's Ejaculation
• c) Usurping the Phallus
• d) The Violent Woman
• e) Financial Independence
• f) Women's Ejaculation, Again
• g) Inversion of Gender Order
• 3. Conclusions
• V. Ezekiel 23 and the Hypervirile Man
• 1. Introducing Oholah and Oholibah
• 2. Differences between Ezek. 16 and Ezek. 23
• a) Roles of the Characters and Use of Verbs
• b) Reformulation of Key Phrases
• c) Affinities with Hosean and Jeremian Traditions
• 3. Conclusions
• VI. Conclusion.
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This book is about both the fear of gender reversal and its expression in the prophet Ezekiel's reworking of the marital metaphor. Kamionkowski argues that the abomination of "wife Jerusalem" is that she is attempting to pass for a male, thereby crossing gender boundaries and upsetting the world order. This story is therefore one of confused gender scripts, ensuing chaos and a re-ordering through the reinforcement of these strictly defined prescriptions of gendered behaviour.Using socio-historical evidence and the existence of the literary motif of "men turning into women" as a framework, this book argues that Ezekiel 16, in particular, reflects the gender chaos which arises as an aftermath of social and theological crises.
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